Top 100 Andrew Jackson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Desperate courage makes One a majority.”

— Andrew Jackson

52. “Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”

— Andrew Jackson

53. “You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.”

— Andrew Jackson

54. “It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.”

— Andrew Jackson

55. “Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.”

— Andrew Jackson

56. “I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.”

— Andrew Jackson

57. “The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe.”

— Andrew Jackson

58. “If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”

— Andrew Jackson

59. “The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.”

— Andrew Jackson

60. “When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.”

— Andrew Jackson

61. “Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.”

— Andrew Jackson

62. “The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key and bolt the door at once.”

— Andrew Jackson

63. “The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children’s disgrace.”

— Andrew Jackson

64. “Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.”

— Andrew Jackson

65. “The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.”

— Andrew Jackson

66. “It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”

— Andrew Jackson

67. “Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.”

— Andrew Jackson

68. “We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.”

— Andrew Jackson

69. “I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.”

— Andrew Jackson

70. “There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.”

— Andrew Jackson

71. “It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.”

— Andrew Jackson

72. “Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.”

— Andrew Jackson

73. “There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.”

— Andrew Jackson

74. “Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.”

— Andrew Jackson

75. “In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.”

— Andrew Jackson

76. “I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.”

— Andrew Jackson

77. “Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.”

— Andrew Jackson

78. “In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.”

— Andrew Jackson

79. “My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country – Doctor, that is a different case.”

— Andrew Jackson

80. “The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.”

— Andrew Jackson

81. “We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.”

— Andrew Jackson

82. “I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.”

— Andrew Jackson

83. “It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.”

— Andrew Jackson

84. “This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.”

— Andrew Jackson

85. “There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.”

— Andrew Jackson

86. “From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.”

— Andrew Jackson

87. “The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”

— Andrew Jackson

88. “Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.”

— Andrew Jackson

89. “I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.”

— Andrew Jackson

90. “I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.”

— Andrew Jackson

91. “I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.”

— Andrew Jackson

92. “If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.”

— Andrew Jackson

93. “Their object is disunion.”

— Andrew Jackson

94. “In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.”

— Andrew Jackson

95. “This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It’s great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.”

— Andrew Jackson

96. “I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.”

— Andrew Jackson

97. “I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.”

— Andrew Jackson

98. “To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people.”

— Andrew Jackson

99. “If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.”

— Andrew Jackson

100. “Fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”

— Andrew Jackson